Continuing in 2017 to work through the Poet’s Corner card deck series.
“Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
To thy high requiem become a sod.”
“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats.
Along with P.B. Shelly, Keats was labelled “unabashedly lyrical and emotional” and were “easily parodied” for their “superhuman sensitivity” and were “celebrated by the young [and] reviled by the establishment critics.” Keats had a “fragile constitution” and was ridiculed for being “unmanly.” He died of consumption in Rome. Nothing on this card about his craft or reasons for his popularity. Harsh!
“Women and men (both dong and ding) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain”
From “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by e.e. cummings
Both similarly and alternatively described: Cummings was a “romantic iconoclast who vented his rage at the dehumanizing effects of modern civilization.” He “eschewed capitalization” and used “quirky typography, syntax and punctuation” that took on “ a coherent meaning all their own.”
Week stats:
1 black American female
6 white American females
6 white American males
1 white Andalusian male
1 white Austrian male
1 Chilean male
7 white English males
2 white English female
1 white French male
1 white Italian male
1 white Scottish male
1 white Welsh male
1 1300s poet
1 1600s poet
1 1700s poet
11 1800s poets
15 1900s poets
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